Aug. 16, 2024 10a
(WGTD0---Gov. Evers toured Gateway’s Center for Sustainable Living Thursday to highlight the state’s effort to meet clean energy goals.
The center is a converted farm house and surrounding grounds, tucked away between Gateway’s Kenosha campus, the athletic fields of Bradford High School, a subdivision to the north and the Pike Creek to the south. It includes a short nature walk, a fledgling oak savanna, an orchard, a prairie and numerous displays, both inside and outside.
Evers was impressed. "It (the center) takes this whole issue of taking care of our environment down to some really basic things," he said. "It's what we can do on a daily basis to make our world a better place. I just love it."
About 25-hundred people, mostly K-through-12 students, tour the center each year.
Wisconsin’s clean energy plan is the work of the four-year-old state Office of Sustainability and Clean Energy.
Its sub-goals are numerous and varied. One involves the planting of 100 million new trees by 2030 to enable the state to store and exchange a total of 4.8 billion pounds of carbon dioxide per year.
The state has already met 40% of that goal, according to the center's annual report.
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